2. blood (bloody)
Compositor B displays a marked preference for -oo-
forms of blood and bloody. Of the 103 (+J4)
-ou- forms in copy, B changes sixty-three (+J4) to
-oo-. At the same time, he retains sixty-one (+J5) of the
sixty-six (+J5) -oo- spellings found in copy. It is interesting
to
note that in spite of his clear-cut preference for -oo-,
Compositor B does allow four -ou- spellings in ten to come
through into his texts. In all ten plays, there are only five abberant changes
of -oo- to -ou- or about one in thirteen
occurrences
of the word.
